From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 20:02:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19811 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:02:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cm110108.cableco-op.com (cm110108.cableco-op.com [206.24.110.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19806 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg@netbox.com) Received: from localhost (jwg@localhost) by cm110108.cableco-op.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA16441 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:09:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg@netbox.com) X-Authentication-Warning: cm110108.cableco-op.com: jwg owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:09:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Gray X-Sender: jwg@cm110108.cableco-op.com To: Questions at FreeBSD Subject: ifconfig Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Running 2.2.6. Yesterday my cable modem folks decided I needed to have a different IP address. No biggie in theory. As root ran ifconfig ex0 inet xxx.xx.xxx.xx netmask yyy.yy.yy.yy up checked via ifconfig -a and it looked fine. However, I was not connected to the net. No way. So, I edited /etc/rc.conf and rebooted and all was fine. My question is: shouldn't ifconfig have worked as above without rebooting, or did I leave a step off? Thanks jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message